Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

name names

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English

Syllables: name -names
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity.

Example Sentences

""Pr'ythee, peace, man," said Avenel; "what need of naming names, so we understand each other? [...]""
"They named names—names which I shall not record here."
"He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school."
"Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy."

Inflected Forms

names names (present, singular) naming names (participle, present) named names (participle, past) named names (past)

Frequently Paired Words

informant

Synonyms

inform grass up snitch bewray blow the whistle clepe denounce dime dime out dob drop a dime drop a dime on someone

Questions

What does name names mean?: To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity.

How to pronounce name names

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